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Sunday, September 22, 2013 in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, collaborators Binh Danh and Robert Schultz spoke about their exhibition, “War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Renewal.” The slide talk treated their project in relation to the NGA’s exhibition, “Tell It with Pride,” centered on the 54th Massachusetts Regiment—the…

Each year the publishing house Taylor & O’Neill issues a call for photographs on a given theme, selects its favorite images, then invites writers to respond to them with poems or short prose passages. The final selections are then issued in an “Open to Interpretation” anthology, richly produced in a large format, cloth bound book.…

The Hudson Review’s Summer 2013 edition includes a poem by Robert Schultz adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Circles.” The poem borrows, revises, and reorders Emerson’s language and themes to make a sculpted free verse poem that includes the lines, “Our way of life is wonder-filled / Abandonment, it whispers to us.”

A sonnet by Robert Schultz, “Not with a Bang but a Tweet,” was Poem of the Day for July 31, 2013 on Scribners’ Best American Poetry blog. Three previous poems by Schultz were featured on the blog in August 2010. “Reflective,” “Drifting Souls,” and “A Place” appeared with images of the artworks by Binh Danh…

As part of The Hudson Review’s New York area Writer’s-in-the-School’s program, editor Paula Deitz and Robert Schultz regularly visit classrooms where Schultz discusses his essay “Hardball” with students and responds to their original work.

“The Butterfly Portrait,” a poem by Robert Schultz in the Summer 2013 issue of Able Muse contemplates Whitman’s favorite photograph of himself, and includes quotations from Whitman, A. R. Ammons, Sir Philip Sidney, and an Easter hymn printed on the cardboard butterfly wired to Whitman’s finger in 1877 when the portrait was made.

Binh Danh’s recent exhibition, The Grass Over Graves (Washington & Lee University, Lexinton, VA, January 4 – Febuary 4, 2011), included work growing out of his collaboration with Robert Schultz. A Daguerreotype portrait of Schultz next to a Daguerreotype rendering of his poem, “Amulet,” was in the exhibition. The poem describes a wounded U.S. Civil War soldier looking at his beloved in a small Daguerreotype photograph that he keeps in a locket hung around his neck. When he looks at the picture’s metallic surface he sees his own face mingled with hers. A visitor to the gallery who read the poem there saw his or her face reflected among the…

During a sabbatical year in 2010 Robert Schultz worked on his novel-in-progress, How the Future Was, in a mountain home in North Carolina courtesy of a Robinson-Lineberger residency. The residency is an initiative of the Lutheran Writers Project which makes its administrative home at Roanoke College and annually sponsors a symposium there. Past topics have included…

A reading from We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman’s Pacific War at the Library of Congress August 10, 2010 featured Robert Schultz, co-author James Shell, and WWII veteran Robert Hunt. A discussion and book-signing followed, and Hunt’s recollections of V-J Day in San Francisco were posted in video format on the Library of Congress and The History Channel websites.

On April 18, 2010 at Luther College Robert Schultz was inducted into the college’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter as an alumni member and gave the Ruth A. Davis Memorial Address, which he titled “The Importance of the Misfit Fact.”

Robert Schultz is making author appearances in connection with the publication of We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman’s Pacific War. Recently he and coauthor James Shell spoke at the Navy Day celebration, October 13, at the United States Navy Memorial, Washington, D.C. Schultz will deliver the keynote address at the Maritime Symposium, Dossin Great Lakes Maritime…